{"id":28300,"date":"2012-04-03T08:23:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T12:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=28300"},"modified":"2012-04-03T08:23:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T12:23:57","slug":"changing-of-the-guard-for-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2012\/changing-of-the-guard-for-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Changing of the Guard for Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; The dynamics of the hedge fund industry are changing and so are the managers. The days of expert networks, massive fund inflows and controlled trading are history.\u00a0Hedge funds\u00a0are seeing outflows\u00a0compared with other \u00a0investments, like high frequency trading funds\u00a0and ETFs with lower fees. For the traders at\u00a0mediocre hedge funds, it\u2019s exit time.<\/p>\n<p>A common hedge fund strategy in 2012 is to overweight in\u00a0Apple. For many of the top performing funds, the performance can be attributed to concentration in Apple holdings, which are up 50% in the first quarter.\u00a0UBS\u00a0estimates the S&amp;P 500?s Q1 2012 earnings could rise\u00a0\u00a0twice as fast\u00a0with Apple\u00a0as\u00a0without it.\u00a0The star of\u00a0tech sector is widening the gap from the rest according to Barclay\u2019s Capital\u00a0(tech.fortune.cnn.com).\u00a0The extraordinary performance of Apple\u00a0has been\u00a0crucial to hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/susankalla\/2012\/04\/02\/changing-of-the-guard-for-hedge-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; The dynamics of the hedge fund industry are changing and so are the managers. The days of expert networks, massive fund inflows and controlled trading are history.\u00a0Hedge funds\u00a0are seeing outflows\u00a0compared with other \u00a0investments, like high frequency trading funds\u00a0and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28301,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28300\/revisions\/28301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}